Dilanthi demonstrates exceptional contribution to postgraduate teaching through innovative leadership and supervision. Her vision for postgraduate research studies is to be the lead international supervisor for real-world focused, multidisciplinary postgraduate research in disaster science.  To this effect, she continues with her efforts to attract high calibre students. She is a strong believer that a critical mass of good quality doctoral researchers will make a difference, and she is further developing the research area through good quality doctoral candidates. Se has been supervising over 10 students in any given academic year, which is significantly above average at the University.  she is currently the main supervisor for 11, and co-supervise 8 FT/PT PhD students, with 47 successful completions for PhD Awards, 42 MSc by Research/MPhil assessed as external examiner; over 60 PhDs assessed as external examiner (Including at: University of Bristol, Liverpool John Moors University, University College London, University of Durham, University of Ulster, University of Northumbria, University of Cambridge, Nottingham University. Some examples for international institutions include: Universities in Sri Lanka; National University of Singapore; RMIT, University of Melbourne, University of New Castle, University of New South Wales, University of Queensland, Monash University in Australia; University of Auckland and University of Canterbury in New Zealand; UiTM and UTM in Malaysia; University of Tokyo in Tokyo); 26 PhDs assessed as internal examiner.